Is mom jumping the gun on this situation? Is she interfering with law enforcement? Some may think she’s just suffering from the reality that another human being is so “evil” to kill her boy. Regardless, she is recanting her statements of Hataway, and practically clearing him on all accounts. What gives?

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Friday was the fifth day of searching, and investigators found another shoe that most likely belonged to George.

Thursday, George’s mother had harsh words for possible suspect James Hataway, but Friday said her son could’ve been high and just drowned in the lake.

The circumstances of his disappearance are still a mystery.

Fifty crime scene investigators from Orange, Seminole, Lake and Polk counties and FDLE are removing buckets of mud one-by-one from the lake bed and sifting through it using quarter-inch screens to make sure no evidence is missed.

“We take that bottom layer of muck, about four to six inches depending on where we’re at, maybe a little deeper, and then that muck material is placed onto screens,” Apopka Deputy Chief Donald Heston said.

Police Chief Robert Manley also took Rachael George, whose son Chris disappeared near the lake two years ago, to see for herself how thoroughly they’re searching. She’s been critical of the Apopka Police Department and, even though Thursday she used the word “evil” when asked about Hataway, a possible suspect in her son’s disappearance, Friday she said if her son was murdered she doesn’t believe Hataway did it.

“I think his whereabouts are accounted for during that time. However, he was involved in the cleaning of the vehicle, and the staging of the vehicle,” Rachael George told WFTV.

Apopka police say they have not shared those kinds of details with her and have no idea why she’s saying that.

Hataway is also a suspect in the disappearance of Tracy Ocasio of Ocoee in May 2009.

Police say it could be a week before the medical examiner tells them whether there’s any sign of trauma on the bones. If not, police will have a tougher time figuring out whether George was murdered and, if so, who did it.